RIPEstat Live Demo #2

This article summarises the second RIPEstat demo session that took place today, 22 February 2011.

The first demo summary can be found here. The second session was well attended. The main focus was the additional features added to RIPEstat as well as the Egyptian Internet disconnection.

New Features

Features are pushed out on a regular basis.

A change log has been added to record new features and bugs fixed with each release

A news box contains important and adhoc new features

In the future, this could contain automatically identified issues

Completely new modular architecture

Ajax loading for enhanced performance experience

Quicker plugin development time

Ability to easily add additional datasets and APIs

New modules

Historic prefix count

Spam blacklist

Geo-location for ASes

Routing consistency

New graph features

On-demand loading of historic data

Zooming into specified regions

Raw data output available for all queries

Basis for future development using plugin query language

Egypt Outage Monitor

Information Services quickly deployed a monitoring solution tailored to the situation in Egypt. It was refined over the course of a day to illustrate the outage and monitor it in real time.

The methodology was published along with the illustrated data, giving users a complete picture of the data.

This proved to be quite popular. A large number (10,000s) of users visited. The current page was updated with static content covering the duration of the outage.

Upon examining the anonymised public logs, we discovered that, in addition to users visiting http://stat.ripe.net/egypt, they also attempted to reach other countries using the same method, i.e., stat.ripe.net/norway.

From this we can see users want to be able to view prefix data within the context of geographical locations. This is something we will look into for future development.

Questions and Answers

Q1: Someone asked if the comments were for the service rather than the specific resources. It was aked whether there was a plan to add comments to resources.

A1: The developers responded that they would look at how comments are used and if the volume becomes too high they might add comments to resources.

Feedback

As always, we invite your comments, questions and feedback on our demo and stat.ripe.net.

Future Demo

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